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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2400/month is literally less than 20% of his income. You sound heartless.[/quote]

Remember Dad pays taxes on his income, and probably provides the health care and more.  Mom gets all that money tax free.  $2400 is more than most people spend on their kids.  Is more than some people earn in a month.  Its a lot of money.  We spend a lot on our child and don't even come close to that if you average it out over a year (except maybe if you include college savings).[/quote]

-.+100  the file support we paid for one was much more than the amount we paid for two in our house ( including health insurance, share of utilities and food etc, not just direct kid costs).  All while the ex lies about where money and activities came from and never went back to work. I could go on with more... 🙄[/quote]

We had all kinds of drama.  Ex demanded we pay for her health insurance even though kid had always been on Dad's since birth but she didn't want to use it. Dad was ordered to provide insurance.  She ended up dropping her insurance and putting him on medicaid as we got a call from medicaid demanding we reimburse them (which we refused as we had insurance for him and they should have done their homework).  She'd demand he pay extra for activities and then the kids wouldn't participate.  We finally caught on and said tell us where to send the money (company or school) and we'll send it directly and tell us where we buy the uniform/shoes or what ever was needed and sizes and we'll ship it directly to the house.    But, hey, no one here wants to hear the other side.  And, the braces... we agreed to pay 1/2 per the court order after insurance directly to the orthotist and she refused to use the child support money to pay her half so kid never got them till an adult.  They should make people who get child support file yearly like they do with  guardianship or social security rep. payee to prove the money is spend on the individual receiving it.

As a parent, the food costs are nominal for an extra kid.  Our housing and utility costs are the same.  Our big expenses are private lessons and sports and camps (but all of those are optional and I could pick much cheaper ways of doing it).  Even so, its not $2000+ a month even with a sleep away camp for a week.

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